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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

l MARLBOROUGH CONRATH, OF NORTH AUDLEY STREET, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.

MATERIAL l=OR DECORATING.WALLS AND OTHER SURFACES SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,489, dated October 12, 1886 Application filed March 30, 1886. Serial No.197,l82. (Specimens) Patented in England January 27, 1886, No. 1,239.

.T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARLBOROUGH C N- RATH, a citizen of England, residing at North Audley Street, in the. county of Middlesex, England, have invented a new and useful Material for Decorating WValls and other Surfaces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of material embossed with ornamental designs, in continuous lengths, such as may be applied like paper-hangings for decorating walls and other surfaces. The material is ofsuch a character that, being flexible and elastic, it receives and also retains embossing impressions, it is impervious to moisture, it does not absorb Vapors or infectious matters, it can be painted, gilt, or otherwise ornamented, and can be washed without injury.

I make or procure from the makers a thin kind of the material known as kamptulicon, which is made by mixing powdered cork with a solution of caoutchouc, and spreading the mixture in a thin layer over a textile fabric, which forms a backing, the whole being flattened and smoothed by being passed between pressing rollers. To the backing texture of this kamptulicon I cement, by paste or other suitable cement, brown paper or paper of equivalent stiffness, passing the whole in continuous lengths between pressing-rollers. I

have thus a composite material, consisting of a waterproof facing compounded of cork and caoutchouc, an intermediate texture that gives strength to resist tearing, and a paper backing that can yield sufficient] y to receive embossing impressions, and gives stiffness and elasticity to retain these impressions. I pass this composite material between embossing-rollers, one

of which is heated, and I thus cause it to present 011 its face protuberances forming orna o mentaldesigns with corresponding hollows at its back. The parts of the paper backing which are not hollowed by the embossing being served with paste in the usual way can be made to adhere to walls or other surfaces like 5 ordinary paper-hangings. When the material P is thus fixed in position, the protuberant parts of the design, being hollow behind, maybe pressed back, but they have sufficient elasticity to resume their protuberant condition when 0 the pressure on them is relieved- Having thus described the nature of my invention and the best way I know of carrying the same out in practice, I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a material 5 for decorating walls and other surfaces, consisting of thin kamptulicon havingbrown or other stiff paper cemented to its backing of texture, and the whole embossed, substantially as herein described.

. 60 In testimony whereof I have signed my name -to this specification, in the presence of two sub- 

